Organizational Social Media Use and Community Social Capital: Disparities by Poverty and Racial Composition

• Published in: Journal of poverty Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 374 - 390
• Main Authors: Livermore, Michelle, Chowdhury, Monazil, Baumgartner, Gerald, Jeanlouis, Jahraya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Binghamton Routledge 29.07.2023; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Censuses; Community; Mass media effects; Nonprofit organizations; Poverty; Social capital; Social media

Organizations play an essential role in solving community problems and social media facilitates their efforts. This paper illustrates an approach to using the social media data of organizations to observe community-level social capital unobtrusively by comparing communities that differ by racial com...